期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/08/021
关键词
CMBR polarisation; cosmological parameters from CMBR; quantum gravity phenomenology; CMBR theory
资金
- ASI [I/016/07/0]
- Foundational Questions Institute [RFP2-08-02]
We show that the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization data gathered by the BOOMERanG 2003 flight and WMAP provide an opportunity to investigate in-vacuo birefringence, of a type expected in some quantum pictures of space-time, with a sensitivity that extends even beyond the desired Planck-scale energy. In order to render this constraint more transparent we rely on a well studied phenomenological model of quantum-gravity-induced birefringence, in which one easily establishes that effects introduced at the Planck scale would amount to values of a dimensionless parameter, denoted by., with respect to the Planck energy which are roughly of order 1. By combining BOOMERanG and WMAP data we estimate xi similar or equal to -0.110 +/- 0.075 at the 68% c.l. Moreover, we forecast on the sensitivity to. achievable by future CMB polarization experiments (PLANCK, Spider, EPIC), which, in the absence of systematics, will be at the 1-sigma confidence of 8.5 x 10(-4) (PLANCK), 6.1 x 10(-3) (Spider), and 1.0 x 10(-5) (EPIC) respectively. The cosmic variance-limited sensitivity from CMB is 6.1 x 10(-6).
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